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LENIN COLLECTED WORKS
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TELEGRAM FROM THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF UKRAINE,
COMMISSAR OF MILITARY AFFAIRS PODVOYSKY, COMMANDER OF THE FRONT

Kiev
April 20, 1919

For successful continuous offensive against Kolchak, transport means are essential. We are collecting everything possible here. There is a large quantity of automobile equipment in Ukraine. We request immediate dispatch of 100–75 trucks. Kolchak has almost triple superiority in artillery. According to operational reports, the Ukrainian army has captured an enormous quantity of artillery. We request the urgent formation of several batteries for the Eastern Front.

Lenin

Printed from the handwritten copy.

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MEMORANDUM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC

April 20, 1919

Issue a reprimand for idle talk to the author of the telegram*.

* The memorandum was written on an extensive telegram from the military commissar of the Military Communications Administration of the VIII Army concerning the causes of delay in military transport trains on the Liski–Evstratovka sector.

1919
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FROM THE RESOLUTIONS OF THE COUNCIL OF DEFENSE
APRIL 21, 1919
ON THE ACCOUNTING OF MILITARY PROPERTY

Appoint tomorrow at 6½ p.m. a commission composed of comrades Stalin, Sklyansky, Lenin, and Krasin to inspect at the Extraordinary Commission for the Supply of the Red Army the manner in which military property is being accounted for in warehouses, with the provision that urgent decisions shall be made by the commission in the name of the Council of Defense.

Entrust to Sklyansky to conduct negotiations tonight over the direct wire with Rybinsk to clarify the military property available in the Rybinsk warehouses of the Supreme Economic Council.

ON THE TRANSPORT OF A DIVISION FROM ASTRAKHAN*

Entrust to a commission composed of the chairman of the Council on Transport and representatives of the Commissariat of Railroads and the Chief Administration of Water Transport to develop tomorrow the most economical method with regard to the expenditure of materials for the transport of troops, from the perspective of combining land and water transport, with the provision that a sufficient portion shall go by land transport according to the instructions of the Field Staff.

Chairman of the Council of Defense
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from protocol No. 30 of the session of the Council of Defense, April 21, 1919.

* This concerns the transfer of the 33rd Division of the XI Army to the Southern Front. See the present collection, pp. 127, 138.

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